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Special Report A new theory of consciousness By Tam Hunt GETTY IMAGES The Hippies Were Right: It’s All about Vibrations, Man! ...

Special Report Tam Hunt is a practicing lawyer (renewable energy law and policy) by day and by night a scholar (affiliated with ...

Special Report ly cited work over the last two decades the ways in which various electrical patterns, specifically, gamma, theta ...

A German family poses for a portrait, 1937. The Nazi regime urged German mothers to ignore their toddlers’ emotional needs— the ...

R enate flens, a german woman in her 60s who sUffers from depression, tells her psychotherapist that she wants to love her child ...

Sleep time was no exception. In The German Mother and Her First Child, Haarer wrote, “It is best if the child is in his own room ...

could not be expressed directly. Direct evidence for Quindeau’s interpretation is hard to come by, however: randomized, controll ...

parent returns as well. Attachment researchers closely observe the child’s behavior during the entire episode. If the child is u ...

The Neuroscience of Creativity: Q&A with Anna Abraham The latest state of the field of the neuroscience of creativity By Sco ...

What is going on in our brains when we are creating? How does our brain look different when we are engag- ing in art versus scie ...

Which creativity approach is best suited to the neuroscientific perspective? The influential four Ps conceptualization refers to ...

ping brain correlates, but what differs are the specific brain regions that are held to be of significance in each of these proc ...

We know surprisingly little about the neurological cor- relates of scientific creativity. It simply has not been investigated ne ...

BEHAVIOR & SOCIETY Don’t Make Me One with Everything The mystical doctrine of oneness has creepy implications A recurring cl ...

Opinion The world might become a better place, Kaufman suggests, and politics less divisive, if children are taught to believe i ...

COGNITION Can Intelligence Buy You Happiness? New research suggests that higher IQ leads to greater well-being by enabling one t ...

self-acceptance, mastery and purpose and meaning in life. Enter a new study conducted by Ana Dimitrijevic and colleagues, in whi ...

you have set out for yourself, it makes sense that be- ing able to manage your emotions in the service of a larger goal will be ...

POLICY & ETHICS In the Nature- Nurture War, Nature Wins Environmental influences are important, too, but they are largely un ...

of these inherited differences that formed the single cell with which we began life. They affect our behavior as adults, when th ...